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they want arming radical groups always has blowback if you remember back to just the one nine hundred eighty s. the u.s. funded and armed the tele band and those mujahideen fighter guys and look how that turned out the u.s. government seems way too eager to arm radical foreigners and disarm average americans when they should be doing the exact opposite but that's just my opinion. visiting the general hospital in fallujah is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads toomas malformations missing limbs and macabre an unbearable little they say every family here is sheltering
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a high dana deformed monstrous child. i'm. going to. get out there enough to know my daughter cries all day long but she hopes to see her daughter get better. deeply affected by leave the city with its newborn monsters. we had for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a bit of a fragile peace the patrols or iraqi wearing uniform. supplied by the us the army
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is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once through the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three it was torn to the ground of the united states believed it of one little. nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. that are passenger alley
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a theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq that gave me to. put folly the combat continues. and is through theater that he hopes to win it is methodist to reinvest the public with a sense of resistance and a taste for life. i met out. today i see a country filled with weapons the overriding color in the city is khaki the color of soldiers because i see young people with no future men and women deprived of any feeling of citizenship the grown people have forgotten their rights and their duties. as if they were lost with them but i completely lost.
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not. more time to begin to shoulder but more than that. in baghdad no one knows who the enemy is anymore sunni's shias islamists christians each with their armies and militia each fighting the other. not of lawless i know some of your guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the car then the model of some of it i do gives them money whereas the government abandons them by that something of yours. would have paid to kill here on that a florist alcohol about michelle obama so they've ruined their futures that lives and their families find out oh my while home. might for nothing goes.
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on october thirty first twenty ten a terrorist group claiming all kind of affiliation occupied the catholic cathedral in baghdad. five suicide bombers activated their explosive belts fifty eight people were killed. in nine years of occupation of civil and religious wars and attacks a cause more than one hundred ten thousand victims a centrally civilian. syriac khaldiyeh and also docks and armenian churches have become choice targets. i'll kind of us. asons and sunni and shia fanatics agree on nothing except on effecting
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the christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad is a raising its illustrates christian past. checkpoints abound every hundred meters crossing baghdad is a permanent obstacle course. but i think iraq is a battlefield for an array of foreign forces. iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there's the sunnis. for the month i live in. a sunny district. in two thousand and six i was all for. it was subjected to rocket fire at least fifty rockets falling on us every day it never stopped. you know me the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show out of you know their ideas of a new the battles raged for seventy two hours you know. al-qaeda the army the
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militia everyone was fighting men behind a band and bodies became prey fit to be devoured by stray dogs that my little girl saw dogs eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me ritual from just. living in baghdad ming surviving attacks but it's also an everyday battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for khaled my driver a visit to the barber after ten days on the road should be a moment to relax a moment of peace but nothing is that simple. yes quite simply hell here. sheer hell.
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it's not a normal life like other people have around the world. may god act to improve things what do you say for the good of all not for sure god is good and. evil. but i'm. sure the schoolteacher she's invited us to. get out of twenty years of. how you got through it as a woman. i grew up in email on your head and how first the war with iran and then the embargo and the two american intervention i sound. a little but my first
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in one thousand nine hundred and the second in two thousand and three. for the iran war my brother was arrested and there was just my dad to take care of the family all those girls had no work my father ran a small business. we barely grown up when the embargo strangled the whole country can you imagine no fruit or vegetables meat we couldn't afford and fish even more so. it's only today that i can buy it but we lived in safety the women could move about without any problem we had peace but in poverty i think that anything that. done i was. among the one of my wife is devout but as we have guests i can drink we may be poor but we still have a sense of hospitality. i'm doing a sunni and a shia for the rest couple today war and religion have also imposed by hundreds on love. as the lights go out once again the
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neighborhoods back up generators take over. i'm sure much of the family that lives . none not one thing that we are unique ok i'm shia my husband a sunni muslim now after the war the two religions can't intermarry anymore and that's and it wasn't the case before and what was important was that people loved each other and what's the distinction between shia and sunni of sydney it's shameful treating people this way in iraq with all muslims there must. be so what a muslim man asks for the hand of a muslim woman according to islamic tradition my friend that's all but i think how it was at the end of the war that this division appears shia sunni. but i think now we've come to threats with the head how does
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a sunni there an area shiite is that we're seeing as you look at that what if the alternative is to get divorced or die you know if you don't agree to get divorced you risk death you could think you're going to youngish if not in our neighborhood they shot a woman in front of her husband and children for the unique reason she was shia and he was sunni said that you know she. this morning i'm not just leaving baghdad i'm fleeing baghdad. but the city gates the soldier who checks out passports tells us yet another attack a scar to the capital. another checkpoint on the road to babylon we present our passports and passes. a country apprehensive. the sky is like twilight
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i feel like i'm wandering in the kingdom of the dead it's raining sand. prayers have punctuated each day on the road i sleep while he converses with his god. amidst the wind blown sound appears the mythical city of babylon. in his delusions of grandeur saddam hussein emerged himself to be its king the heir to the throne there president of the iraqi republic saddam hussein in one thousand eight hundred eight inaugurated the restored city of babylon first built by nebuchadnezzar between six o four and five sixty two b.c. . at the height of his
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power like the ancient kings before him saddam built his palace in the heart of the legendary city. his tower of babel crashed down around him and the dust of pride and ambition. his memory has been left to the ravages of time and the insults of his survivors. wealthy british style. markets why not. gonna. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on
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r g. seals are born a right on the ice fields of the white sea. throughout the twentieth century the poles were hunted for their snow white furs. russia imposed a ban on this trade and hunters have since been replaced by tourists but will these pups stay safe forever. saving seals on r.t.e. . she was looking for love and she found marriage she wanted children and now she has eleven. she's ok but others been and seven adopted children are a joy of a positive. over my long list may in the maternity have i had a disease so she gave me oh. i'm a chevy cause of the future so nobody wanted to make friends with me it chased me spat on me and threw stones. is still my dream was to have parents.
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mom and dad. the mom there aren't many people granted to take kids like us. they found a new kind of medicine they call it slow. please follow my example you know it can be dangerous for your health. at the end of the road lies come the mecca of vatican and medina of the shia world. but something of god and other al qaeda is the real enemy of iraq and even of all the arab regions i don't believe several terrorist organizations have been exported by neighboring countries i don't know but they are responsible for so many victims since baghdad fell. you know at the end i would stress that most of the attacks
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have targeted the shia community can have just been one upmanship. pilgrims are well protected here all the. purses and soldiers a shia. several million faithful including many from iran come every year to visit the mosques and kabbalah a boon for the holy city. religion is a river of gold as the saying goes. we get more it's obvious that when a country's native sons defend it things go better and they're always better than an occupier. and invader always has trouble understanding the country they occupy and as the heir proverb says no one knows the roads of mecca better than its own inhabitants limited. to five it. is. the main prayer takes place in hussein most. the interim
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sermons a political resonance and a broadcast throughout iraq and the shia world and. the shias today are imposing their numbers and their power. in the prayers always end with cries to the glory of the prophet hussein the son of ali allegedly designated by mohammed to be his only successor. that there. was. but many on the underside a million shias were detained and many of them were assassinated then thrown into mass graves and center i myself your servant spent twelve years in iraqi jails my family only received news of me one or two years after i was released. i
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was even afraid of my own brother i thought he was an officer who come to interrogate me yes we suffered and the prisons were filled with shias only when the f.b.i. . leaving kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portraits of shia mountains fall in for the glory of the prophet hussein mohammed their. little bit of the. hospital. on the baghdad bass run highway in the middle of the desert are faithful taxi
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finally gives up the ghost. i feel suddenly vulnerable alone in the wilderness. as if by magic a man appears from the sands to help us out perhaps this is the renowned desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the men who maintain the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. them without knowing who we ought to make room for us to share that. with out of the massive take iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue.
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remember your family was taken hostage and she deserves it. you horrible new days when they called people who ran away they were simply hang out with them one on one i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough talk insanity days a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bank he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. not rock the boat. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil fields of rumaylah. more than half of iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sound. shell b.p. exxon mobil and the chinese cineplex of already got their hands on the bulk of it.
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at last we reached best from the euphrates and the tigris meet. travellers once called the city the venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job. that nobody knows of is no work in the situation is unlivable i say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was one hundred percent better under saddam. today there is no respect for the citizens and as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's
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honestly what i feel for ya. we are less and less respected before an iraqi could walk by this head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you that the situation was much better before. the venice of the self was awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it's a humanitarian and social disaster area. here we have absolutely nothing. where we going but at the other but in this oil rich country we can't find work. this is how we live the children of this country why is it fair does god accept this master is in the middle of all the country's oil wealth it's like the mother of oil but he doesn't seem to gain from it the inhabitants are poor and the streets are filled with the unemployed and it.
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was once one of the richest cities in iraq today it seems to have been forgotten by both god and mankind because of oil is cruel indeed. and yet in the heart of the shantytowns t.v. is always given freely. and sweet offering. by our government isn't he in when it if the government doesn't take care of the poor and is only there to save itself until it sound pockets i do expect things to change what go ahead that no minister has taken the trouble to come and see us to
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ask how we survived or ask us if we. need and i think we have nobody to talk to. and so since the americans left the poor and the powerless join the militia and the terrorist groups who at least provide money and protection. everywhere in the city are portraits of the shia in mum and saddam his radical troops feed on poverty. the road ends i'll file on the banks of the push and gulf the end of our journey. from this is the al back of oil terminal rising from the water far from terrorist
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attacks and on a constant military surveillance where iraq's fortune oil flows in and out. the country's fortune and perhaps misfortune two. wars here have always been clothed in the same color black. and foul was at the mouth of the shuttle our best during where the tigris joins the euphrates forming the border with a ramp. on the iranian bank a gigantic portrait of the m.m. how many is there to taunt us a reminder that americans have gone leaving pandora's box wide open. been especially on me personally i never thought an old collaborated with the americans. would judge but surely i work i am and always have been a taxi driving us. i still can't cross the country no. to south gen from south
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dakota and follow all taxi i go wherever i can find work and i don't hesitate god be praised all i want to still live my. twenty days on the road perhaps one hundred checkpoints. with my friend khaled we've crossed a country which is officially no longer at war but where peace is not being restored a country divided by sectarian shia sunni and kurd communities a country where tara is a daily issue. from
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the hoa they'll be ill so the manja kook muscle to create for. baghdad babilonia karbala bastro a far as i'll file we've travelled a road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of his god and me perhaps of providence.
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sigrid lumber jury was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything to nj mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only.
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the civilized world produces more food than it needs. well people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most value trade. is flood or droughts to blame. it was a bad year without a train. we couldn't climb anything but the one who would it all there was great hunger. was it that help comes too late and without good intentions. charity diplomacy and business oh no. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something
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else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. for me this is. these are the images. of canada.
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and. the european central bank. report. calls for. president. christians. to syrian rebels were. chemical weapons.

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